Civilized said:cowboypack02 said:Killing someone based on their skin color, religion, political party or sex.Civilized said:cowboypack02 said:
Just to clarify....Cannon Hinnant wasn't a hate crime. Neither was the death of the white girl who was killed by 4 african american girls in Raleigh a week or two ago.
What's your definition of a hate crime?
I don't know what was in the heart of someone when they decide to take a life....neither do you. All i can see is the glaring double standard.
- The cop who shot Michael Brown was deemed a racist....even through he was just trying to save his own life.
- Jacob Blake had the cops called on him because he was trying to rape someone at his ex-girlfriend's house, then didn't listen to the cops, fought with him, and then went to his car and was reaching in for something when he was shot.
- There is no proof that what happened with George Floyd was due to race
- There is no proof that what heppened with Breonna Taylor is due to race
We have been told that all of these are hate crimes....but there is no proof of it. Am I just suppose to accept it for what i am told with no other critical thinking?
If i bring up Cannon Hinnant, Veronica Baker, Laura Anderson and Charles Wall there isn't a peep of it being a hate crime even through all of them were randomly killed by someone who was black. I don't know if it was race driven or not...but i do know how each has been treated.
The narrative is that if a white person is killed by a black person then there is no way that it is race driven, but if a black person is killed by a white person then it must be a race crime.
Take the blinders off man
I agree the media treats blacks killing whites and whites killing blacks differently. 100%.
But not completely without reason.
Given our country's history of enslaving and killing blacks, and denying them equal justice, black Americans are rightly indignant about being killed by white people too often in this country, many times without justice being served.
These recent killings of blacks by cops have been deemed to be products of a justice system that's infused with institutional racial bias much more than they've been construed as hate crimes. Just because an action is enabled by institutional bias doesn't make it a hate crime.
The cops that pull over and search black Americans 2x - 4x more often than white Americans aren't doing it because they're all racist; those cops and their behaviors are also products of a biased system. They treat black Americans differently than whites. That's what black Americans are so tired of.
Again, think of the irony here.
You're tired of white Americans too often being portrayed as racists in the liberal media. This perception doesn't actually affect your day to day life one iota. Not one bit.
Black Americans are tired of their lives actually being impacted in meaningful ways by institutional bias and racism. These biases affect their life almost every single day, in meaningful ways.
Which issue is of greater importance? Which is the greater problem to solve?
So "Institutional Racism" will be the answer from now to til the end of history for every problem in the black community? It will excuse rape, murder, robbery etc?
Here's a Little History Lesson:
President : Black
Attorney General USA: Black
Mayor: Black
City Council: Majority Black
Police Dept Head: Black
Asst PD: Black
State Attorney: Black
4 of 6 cops: Black
Judge who ruled not guilty: Black
Freddie Gray. Baltimore Maryland. 2015.
And yet..... democrats and other screamed "Racism"!!! Systemic racism!!!! while they burned and looted their own neighborhoods and other areas across the country.
Seriously.